Where did this game come from, the backrooms? This feels like vibe coded slop made with very little love and care, if any. Even the name feels off: Brick... Buddies??? What Buddies? The maddeningly repetitive music turns terrifying very quickly, so I pretty much immediately turned it off. The weird bits of text you unlock by finishing models (i refuse to call them a "story") are so bland and boring that it would actually make the game better if you didn't unlock anything. The gameplay is just as boring though, because Brick Buddies literally only lets you find the right piece in the pile and does everything else for you. No rotating, no manual placement, no deviating from the strict and linear instructions. It highlights everything you need immediately, so even searching for the piece is made annoyingly easy. And on top of that, there are hints??? Why would anyone need hints in this game? It doesn't even feel like I'm playing anything, more like working an assembly line. I could practically feel my neural pathways deteriorating while "playing" this.

The only slightly redeeming quality of this game is that the models themselves actually are pretty cute and have some bits of detail indicating that a real human being designed them – thank god. The mechanic to unlock them is a cheap gacha gimmick, but it sort of works. Unfortunately, there are only a handful of models and you can finish building everything pretty quickly. And when unlocking cute stuff is more interesting than the gameplay itself, than there's clearly something going wrong. I'd love a good, creative and soulful brick building game, but this is not it.

finally, the only lego that i can afford

Overall good for what its worth
everything snaps into place and the sounds are very satisfying
i enjoy the gacha mechanic of rolling for builds

could be improved:
- reducing how much you need to pull to rip open a packet. i find my cursor leaves the game and onto my second monitor to reach the amount of force needed. i otherwise need to take 2 goes to open a packet

- having less pieces per packet, i really dislike opening packets with over 90 pieces its just so much sorting. or if people like it like that having an option in settings to have smaller packs whilst others can just have regular pack size.

cool idea:
- since its all online anyway would be cool to see some elements you couldnt normally do with lego like animated stickers or mechanical/constantly moving parts